On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:44:22PM +0000, skidmore@macconnection.net wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 22 2003 at 11:38 AM -0500, Mike Parson wrote:
>> Personally, I rarely print ascii files directly, I run them through mpage(1):
>>
>> mpage -2o -P foo.txt
>>
>
> Mike,
>
> Thanks very much for the suggestion about using mpage.  I just installed it
> and as you said it solved the stair-stepping problem perfectly.  The only
> change I had to make to the above command was to change the top margin, as
> it was not printing the first 3-4 lines of the file.
>
> Thanks also to all the others who responded to this thread.  I very much
> appreciate everyone's help.

You might have to change the default paper size.  I think it defaults to
A4 out of pkgsrc, so for US/Letter:

mpage -2o -bLetter -P foo.txt

There's also environment variables you can set to change the defaults,
as always, the man page can offer up further assistance.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org